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“Me?” I rounded on him. “I didn’t do a f ucking thing!”
“You yelled at her! There are better ways to ask what’s wrong.”
“Oh, yeah?” I challenged. “I didn’t see you trying very f ucking hard.”
And then I shoved him.
Lanie
Zane snarled and pushed Xander back.
“Don’t f ucking touch me, Xander!” Zane growled.
Xander laughed sarcastically. “I’ll do whatever the f uck I want! I’m the Alpha.”
Asmall smile tugged at the corner of my mouth.
There was something endearing about the way they fought, the passion they spoke with, especially when they were bickering about me.
dy as Warmth seemed to blossom from way down in my soul, radiating out through my whole body watched them, and I suddenly had the crazy thought that I might die if I never heard them fight like this again. But how stu pid was that?
They weren’t even looking at me for goddess’ sake.
What did it mean that the idea of losing my memories, of losing little moments like this, absolutely crushed me?
Was this…love?
It had been only a week since we were mated, but in those short days, I’d felt a small seed of something growing deep inside of me, blossoming more and more every time I saw them or touched them or missed them.
Love, huh? Interesting…
But of course I could never tell them.
I had no idea if I’d even remember I loved them by this time tomorrow. And anyway, I couldn’t handle the anxiety of hearing them say it back.
I’d only second-guess myself more I’d only worry again that this was some fluke, that there was some explanation I was missing for why they could possibly have these feelings for me and not Alice.
And if my mother and Gabriela did take me to do the spell, then what would happen to my mates?
Would the bond be broken? Would they banish me for real?
I pulled myself back to the present, back to Xander and Zane.
“As annoying as you two can be, I’m really going to miss this,” I said quietly.
They both turned to look at me, confused expressions on their faces.
“What are you talking about?” Xander asked. “We’re not going anywhere.”
Zane studied me with concern, like he was reading my soul.
“Lanie, what aren’t you telling us?”
But then the war fantalone and Alien une tomains into the room She was breathless when she spoke.
“Xander, Zane, I have big news.”
idea.
Xander
Oh sh it.
What the f u ck was Alice about to tell us?
She looked from me to Zane to Lanie, then took a deep breath.
“I’m pregnant.”
Time seemed to stop.
This wasn’t possible. We hadn’t slept with her since…
Since Lanie, really. Just the one night we claimed her….
We’d always assumed we’d have pups with Alice. Hell, there was a time I’d actually been excited about the But right now, a cold knot of dread was forming in the pit of my stomach.
“Hello! Did you hear what I said?”
Zane gulped and shot me an uncomfortable look.
Right there with you, brother.
“Alice, how.” I tried to choose my words carefully, but it felt like my brain was short-circuiting. “I don’t think that can be true.”
Alice’s expression turned sour, and Lanie looked confused.
“What he means is…” Zane stepped in, struggling as much as I was. “Are you sure?”
Alice scoffed.
“What the f uck?! Yes, I’m sure.”
She sn atched something out of her back pocket. A pregnancy test.
F uck.
She waved it in front of Lanie’s face..
“It’s positive,” Lanie said in a small voice.
I wanted to grab the test from Alice’s hand and stomp it into oblivion, pretend like it never existed.
Where did she get off shoving that s hit in Lanie’s face?
“Don’t act like we weren’t f ucking constantly before the mating ceremony. Surely, you’re not surprised?” 1/3
What the hell kind of twilight zone were we living in right now?
Yes, we’d made a deal days ago that Alice would have the pups and Lanie would care for them, but that all went out the window as soon as we realized we could never hold up our end of the bargain and let Lanie go.
We couldn’t keep our hands off her, we had to have her in our bed.
And if I was being honest with myself, I’d fantasized about a moment just like this one with Lanie bringing us this news instead of Alice.
G ods, what a f u cking mess.
Alice wrinkled her nose at Lanie.
“I don’t want to hear congratulations from you,” she sneered. “I want to hear it from my mates.”
I watched Zane’s face strain as he tried to muster the words I couldn’t bear to form myself.
But suddenly, Alice’s face went green and she clapped a hand over her mouth as she dove from the room. The gestational period for werewolves was shorter than for humans-only about three months-which meant some she-wolves got much sicker at the start.
I stuck my head out of the office. “Ma!” I called.
My mother entered the room a few moments later.
“Alice is pregnant and sick. Will you watch ver her?
She glanced from Zane to Lanie then back to me, and I thought she might protest, or at the very least drag me for not being there for Alice myself, but then she nodded.
“lll take care of it.”
Lanie
“Lanie, I…1 don’t know what to say.”
Xander and Zane both walked over to me, somber expressions on their faces.
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